Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:29:06 -0600, Tony[B] wrote:
> >At school we had a typewriter that didn't even have a "1". When I asked the
> >teacher what to do, she pointed at the "l". This was not good... especially
> >after having gotten used to the other typewriters having a "1" where they
> >should.
> 
> Kids these days.  Why, in my day, typewriters didn't have either one keys or
> zero keys.  It was only with the advent of computers that it became necessary
> to disambiguate.
> 
> --
> Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
> My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

Then I'm sure you'll also remember those Roman typewriters which had no number
keys at all. They didn't even have a full alphabet...
I may even have a picture of one of those somewhere...

Remco

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